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  • UTME 2017: JAMB partners EFCC, ICPC, Police to monitor exam centres

    UTME 2017: JAMB partners EFCC, ICPC, Police to monitor exam centres

    Sequel to reports of various challenges that marred previous conduct of its examination, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that operatives of the Nigeria Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related offences Commission, ICPC, will monitor the examination centres in the forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UMTE.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the exams will commence from Saturday May 13, 2017.

    JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede told newsmen in Abuja that each test centre will have a supervisor, a technical officer, a verification officer, three proctors as well as security agents.

    “Each state will be superintended over by a head of a tertiary institution (Vice-Chancellor, Rector or Provost) who coordinates the supervisors under his or her jurisdiction”, Oloyede added.

    “It is certainly not going to be business as usual in the conduct of the Board’s examination and other processes.

    “In line with this resolution, the Board had secured through diligent prosecution, the conviction of two Nigerians who forged the Board’s results and came around for verification.

    “At the moment, we have lodged complaints against a number of Computer-Based Test, CBT, centre owners for one infraction or the other and a number of them were arrested, cautioned, while others are to be prosecuted so as to serve as a deterrent to others”, he added.

    The JAMB boss warned candidates not to fall for the ploy of fraudsters who he said were out to defraud them.

    He pointed out a case at the Federal Government Science Technical College, Orozo,Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, where somebody was sending bulk messages to candidates to come and reprint their slips claiming to be from JAMB.

  • JAMB: 321 visually impaired candidates to take 2017 UTME

    JAMB: 321 visually impaired candidates to take 2017 UTME

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has registered 321 visually impaired candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    The Head, JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Bwari.

    Benjamin said that the figure was higher than the 201 candidates registered for the examination in 2016.

    He said that adequate arrangement has been made for the visually impaired candidates to participate fully in the forthcoming UTME.

    According to him, the board used to conduct the Computer Based Test (CBT) using Braille Apex Machine, but most of them complained about its usage.

    “They said they do not know how to use these machines: we are going to bring all visually impaired persons to come and write the exam in a particular location.

    “It could be Digital Bridge in Lagos or Digital Bridge in Abuja.

    “One of the things we have always done for them is to ensure that the few of them that meet the minimum requirement get it.

    “We encourage universities to admit them; we also give them courses that they want to read, so that we can give room for inclusiveness.

    “So that is our preparation as it relates to visually impaired candidates; they are 321 that is 18 per cent of the 1.7 million candidates that registered for this year’s UTME,” the JAMB’s spokesman said.

    The visually impaired candidates who sat for the 2015/2016 UTME practiced with the Braille Apex machine at their respective centres a day before the main examination.

    The practice was also done in the 2015 edition of the UTME through the use of CBT platform.

    He explained that the Board often encourage universities to offer admission to visually impaired candidates who met the basic requirement, saying that 2017 will not be an exception.

    Benjamin said plans were underway to employ the services of experts in the field of education, to be able to achieve the desired goal.

    “We will get some of Nigeria’s best hands in some of those various subjects that they are going to write; these are professors, and people with integrity.

    “They will sit down together with the visually impaired candidates; ask the candidates questions, assess them and then rate them, so it is that rating that will be used for admission purposes.”

    On preparation to hold the UTME on May 13, he said all hands were on deck to conduct a hitch free exercise.

    He noted that the Board did not receive any complaint about irregularity in the course of registration of candidates, as being alleged in certain quarters.

    “There is no complaint from anybody; we have passed the stage of registration, we registered 1.7 million candidates, so if there are issues, we will not have arrived at that number.

    “The hitches that we had were experienced at the initial stage of registration, which was basically as a result of non-compliance with our instruction.

    “We have made necessary effort to ensure that those instructions are adhered to, there is no complain as regards registration again across the country,” he added.

    He, however, said that the posting of candidates to their various examination centers would start from Tuesday May 9.

  • UTME: Crosscheck submitted information before 9pm Saturday, JAMB tells candidates

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the information on their registration forms for the last time today.

    The deadline is 9 pm today 6 May.

    The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin gave the advice in an interview with the newsmen on Saturday in Lagos.

    The advice comes ahead of the 2017 UTME scheduled for May 13 across 633 centres nationwide.

    The registration of candidates for the examination was closed by the board by 12 midnight on Friday, May 5.

    According to Benjamin, the call for the crosschecking of data by prospective candidates was to ensure total inclusiveness.

    He added that the board intended to ensure that no candidate was left out during the examination due to one reason or the other.

    “All candidates who desire to do any change on their registration details are urged to do so today as the platform closes finally by 9 p.m. of Saturday May 6.

    “We are giving all the candidates the last chance to ensure that everyone is carried along and provided with equal opportunity.

    “We also want to avoid a situation whereby candidates will have cause to complain of one incident or the other just before the commencement of the examination,’’ Benjamin said.

     

     

     

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  • JAMB registers over 1. 5 million candidates

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) said it had so far registered 1.5 million candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country.

    The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this in an interview with the newsmen on Saturday at side line of activities marking the pre-JAMB mock examinations.

    It will be recalled that the JAMB mock examinations earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday May 8 had been postponed to ensure smooth conduct of the exam.

    Oloyede said: “So far, it has even been better than our expectation, it was a mock, the intention was to test the technology and it proved to be perfect.

    “I think from what we are seeing, we are more than ready for the main examination.

    “At least 90 per cent of the examination centres have reported positively, there have been proper downloading and preparation; even after the exam we had uploaded responses of 80 per cent.

    “We have done it to show that what works elsewhere across the world should work in Nigeria; we believe we can do it efficiently; we will continue to do our best.

    “We have registered over 1.5million candidates in less than five weeks; we believe that the reality we have put in place is good enough.’’

    Oloyede said that 633 centres were used to conduct the mock examination for 153, 000 candidates across the country.

    In separate interviews, some of examination centre coordinators and candidates lauded JAMB for the mock initiative geared towards equipping the candidates to do better in the main exam.

    Mr Abdul-Aziz Olasoyinka, Technical Research Officer of Digital Bridge Institute, commended JAMB for the mock examination.

    He said it was apt in terms of preparation for future exams.

    Olasoyinka said: “Mock is a good experience because it will help the candidates to adequately prepare for the forthcoming examination.

    “It helps to evaluate how well the candidates have prepared and to improve themselves ahead of time.”

    Mr Olajide Adisa, Director of Outstations at JAMB, said although there were 230 capacities at the Computer Based Test (CBT) centre, plans were on to upgrade to 250 them before the main exam.

    “Even with that our specification is that at least we should have 10 per cent of same capacity as back-up in case of any breakdown.

    “We have already put measures in place to test them in the course of the mock examination, they will be ready before the main examination,” Adisa said.

    A candidate, Miss Hadiza Abdullahi, told NAN that the mock examination had improved her level of confidence ahead of the main exam.

    She described the examination as encouraging, adding that she expects to sit for the main examination well-equipped.

    Abdullahi, however appealed to the board to put measures in place to enable candidates wanting to register for future exam to do so with ease.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the mock examination held in three sessions, including the JAMB headquarter and CBT centre in Kogo community.

  • JAMB seeks Nigerian army to secure UTME exam centres

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pleaded with the Nigerian Army to help secure its computer based tests (CBT) centres for the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME).

    According to a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at a meeting with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Tukur Buratai in Abuja.

    Oloyede solicited for the intervention and cooperation of the Nigerian Army in the coming examination.

    “We are here to thank you for the wonderful job you have been doing, all Nigerians are happy with you for the wonderful feat you have recorded in the discharge of your duties, and your quest for an indivisible and united country,” he said.

    “This need became imperative to seek for security intervention from the Army, particularly in turbulent areas”, he added.

    The Registrar said over 678 centres across the country would be put to use with an estimated 1.5million candidates for the examination.

  • JAMB arrests 25 persons over illegal sale of UTME materials

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has arrested 25 persons over illegal registration and sale of 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) materials.

    JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede said the individuals arrested were selling registration materials to the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to candidates.

    The suspects, he said, were arrested by a combined team of Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU); members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Nigeria Police Force.

    Oloyede said the e-Brochure and e-Syllabus, which were meant to be free were being sold by the culprits as high as N800 each nationwide.

    He also said the culprits were extorting money and inflating cost of registration for candidates.

    “Our quality assurance unit, particularly the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit had to go out to see what was happening, following reports of extortion.

    “We were having reports that candidates are paying more than the N5,500 that is required.,” Oloyede said..

    “Some of them inflated the prices of registration and application documents, so we had to arrest them to show Nigerians that those items were not supposed to be sold.

    “The arrests were carried out across the country yesterday April 1, and we have handed them over to the Nigerian Police for prosecution, ” he said.

    He urged applicants seeking to register for the forthcoming UTME to go about their registration in line with due processes, to avoid hitches associated with irregularities.

    He noted that JAMB would stick to its stipulated April-ending deadline for registration for this year’s examination.

    Oloyede debunked complaints about poor internet connectivity.

    According to him, many of the business centres who wanted JAMB to return to the old practice or producers of the scratch cards are behind the complaints.

    Oloyede also assured all applicants that they would be registered for the exercise before the end of the month.

     

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